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RE: How Leopard Addresses Security Oct 31 2007 01:36AM Rex Sanders (rsanders usgs gov) (1 replies) Re: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 04:26PM phdevallois (phdevallois intego com) (3 replies) RE: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 06:06PM Todd Woodward (todd_woodward symantec com) Re: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 05:57PM Edward R. Marczak (marczak radiotope com) (2 replies) RE: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 06:26PM David Harley (david a harley gmail com) (1 replies) Re: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 07:33PM Edward R. Marczak (marczak radiotope com) (2 replies) RE: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 09:09PM David Harley (david a harley gmail com) (2 replies) RE: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Nov 01 2007 12:19PM Don Rhodes (drhodes mail colgate edu) RE: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 10:30PM Todd Woodward (todd_woodward symantec com) Re: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 08:12PM kjcollins notes cc sunysb edu Re: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 04:44PM Dave Schroeder (das doit wisc edu) (2 replies) Re: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 09:59PM Mark Senior (senatorfrog gmail com) (1 replies) RE: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Nov 01 2007 07:48PM Todd Woodward (todd_woodward symantec com) RE: How Leopard Addresses Security - New malware alert Oct 31 2007 05:52PM David Harley (david a harley gmail com) |
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<marczak (at) radiotope (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
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> On Oct 31, 2007, at 12:26 PM, phdevallois wrote:
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>> A new malware has been found in the wild for mac os x 10.x
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>> http://www.intego.com/news/ism0705.asp
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>> Bad News from Britney. Your DNS has been changed.
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> Ugh. Not again. Sensationalism to sell software.
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> C'mon - this is an issue of ignorance, not technology.
Almost all current malware attacks are issues of ignorance, not technology.
It's significant, however, that attackers are now focusing on Mac users, an
audience that tends to be quite naive when it comes to malware and that has
been neglected in the past.
Social engineering (which is what this attack is) plays a significant role
in the number of Windows boxes that are trojaned and botted. In fact,
prompting the user to install codecs is an oft-used method of tricking
Windows users to install trojans.
Should this software take hold in the Mac community, it would be noteworthy
for that alone.
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Paul Schmehl (pauls (at) utdallas (dot) edu [email concealed])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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